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The Ghost of Public Charge Keeps Scaring Immigrant Families Away From Public Benefits
When the Trump administration proposed an overhaul of federal policy regarding when immigrants could be denied green cards or visas based on use of public benefits – the public charge rule – it made an impact in immigrant communities long before it technically took effect. Even early reports of what the administration was considering as […]
Read MoreNew Americans in Kent County
New research from the American Immigration Council, highlights the significant economic contributions immigrants made in Kent County and West Michigan.
Read MoreCBP’s Continued ‘Turnbacks’ Are Sending Asylum Seekers Back to Lethal Danger
On April 8, a family came to the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana and asked to be let into the United States to seek asylum. The husband’s arm was bleeding. He’d been shot. The cartel that had driven him and his family from Jalisco the previous fall, when he refused to cooperate with […]
Read MoreNew American Fortune 500 in 2023
See our updated web report on the largest American companies and their immigrant roots.
Read MoreLawsuit Challenging Texas’ Floating Barrier Raises Questions About Its Other Border Policies
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Last Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice followed through on its promise to sue Texas over its border policies. But the lawsuit’s focus—the installation of buoys along the Rio Grande River—is far narrower than advocates hoped. The lawsuit came three weeks after the barrier’s installation began and two weeks […]
Read MoreCouncil Sues EOIR To Find Out Why Immigrants’ Court Hearings Are Moved Up on Short Notice
This FOIA suit seeks to compel EOIR to provide information about the immigration courts’ practice of advancing the date of immigrants’ hearings without much notice to them or their attorneys.
Read MoreDefensores legales presentarán demanda para impugnar la constitucionalidad de la ley antiinmigrante de Florida
MIAMI – El Southern Poverty Law Center, la Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles, la ACLU de Florida, Americans for Immigrant Justice y el American Immigration Council han anunciado que presentarán una demanda federal impugnando el proyecto de ley draconiano del Senado de Florida 1718, que entra en vigor hoy, 1 de julio. Los grupos están […]
Read MoreNew Data Analysis Reveals ICE’s Enforcement Activities Contradicted Biden Administration’s Prioritization Guidelines
Newly analyzed government data exposes the discrepancy between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s actions and its own guidelines.
Read MoreICE Didn’t Follow Federal Enforcement Priorities Set by Biden Administration
In 2021, the Biden administration issued policy guidance on how ICE should carry out immigration enforcement. This report is a breakdown of how ICE carried out these policies.
Read MoreFlorida Wants All New Migrants Arriving at the Border Locked Up. The Courts are Helping.
Florida officials think the federal government must detain everyone – or virtually everyone – who arrives at the U.S.-Mexico border without a visa. And it is using the courts to try to make that happen. Just last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit refused to stop two federal district court decisions […]
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